Ace Hooligan at the Project for the New American Revolution has new, improved New Yorker cartoons here. I understand that his quips have already been condemned by the Vatican and the Federal Reserve.
Author Archive | Jim
1994 Tax Day article: “The Growing IRS Dictatorship”
Tax Day is a time to pause to appreciate all that Washington does for us. Here’s a piece I wrote 16 years ago. Unfortunately, few newspapers or magazines are stooping to notice the danger of the IRS’s power these days. The article was accepted by Wall Street Journal editorial features editor Amity Shlaes, and was […]
Podcast of Census-Bashing Interview on Free Talk Live
Mark Edge of Free Talk Live interviewed me yesterday on the Census, government surveillance, and other perils of our times. The podcast is here. My interview is the final 20 minutes of the 2+ hour program. I did not see the interview listed as a separate downloadable file. If I missed something on this, post […]
Happy 90th Birthday, Thomas Szasz!!
April 15 is the 90th birthday of Thomas Szasz, one of the great heroes of freedom in our time. Thanks to his work, millions of people around the globe have had fewer shackles on their lives. His most famous book is The Myth of Mental Illness. In the nearly 50 years since that came out, […]
Kudos to the Libertarian Party of Ohio
The Libertarian Party of Ohio (www.lpo.org) held their annual convention last weekend in Worthington, Ohio. I was there for a Saturday night spiel, and it was a treat to meet so many folks gung-ho to fight for freedom. Many of their activists had a fervor about them which I rarely see inside the Beltway. The […]
The Missing Miranda Warning for your Census Form
from the April 12, 2010 issue of the New Yorker
The National Endowment for Democracy’s Kyrgyzstan Legacy
This is a photo of an undercover policeman kicking the head of a Kyrgyz demonstrator this week. The National Endowment for Democracy and the Bush adminsitration were proud of their role in the uprising that led to the current government taking power in Kyrgyzstan. Maybe the Endowment’s apologists will claim that the demonstrator is […]
Ricardo2000
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956):
“Nobody ever went
R R Schoettker
The utter impotent uselessness of the US congress
Texas Dan
If Waco didn't wake you up, nothing would/wil